Whoa... Now that is a fantastic poster. Great work on this, Wielder! =D

Thank you. I can't take all the credit though as he was a very creative commissioner and certainly helped with the composition!

If only this was Star Wars: Episode Seven XD

Lol, I agree! LoneWolfSniper is a VERY good author. You should look his stories up!

Will do!

WOOOO HOOOO STAR WARS!!

Yush.

beautiful pic, love seeing your Star Wars work. Recognize quite a few of these characters, love how they look =3

Thank you so much, hun! I totally appreciate it!

=3

I ooooove your star wars stuff

*rolls around groaning at how awesome you are*

you totally inspired me to make a star wars character....and the story is flying from my brain ^-^
just wanted to let you know ur an inspiration

Oooooo, I am so glad you made a Stuhr Durrr Murrr Purrr Wurz character! They are too much fun!

Thanks so much!

your welcome ^-^ and i wish i could get her on paper how i see her in my head...but i know the only one who could capture her the way i see it is you XD so until i have the monies to commission you, i must sit and drool over your gorgeous art

and honestly im super glad your so welcoming to the Stuhr Durrr Murr Purr Wurz

i actualy did have nother question about how u felt when others added your characters to their canon/stories...im a big fan of Wielders burmies mountain dog friend

Absolutely gorgeous, lady!

*blushy face* Thank you, babbu!

outstanding.

*blushes* thank you!

Holy damn this is fantastic!

Dawww, thanks!

Oh my... what a gorgeous piece of art! The lighting is astounding, and makes me wonder if the characters in the middle sit on the fence between the dark side and the light side...

You're not that far from the truth!
Initially, I'd planned on a simply color contrast to show the difference between Jace's soldier side (left) and mercenary side (right). Deep red for the left side (courage and determination, but also war) and green for the right side (safety and protection, but also money).
The poster's supposed to be pseudo-chronological from left to right, just as Jace goes from soldier to merc, and showing where these supporting characters come into play.
You could say that it's a spectrum from dark to light, or bad to good, but it would probably be most accurate to show it as a spectrum from chaotic to lawful.
In that sense, and as far as light and dark, the characters in the middle certainly stand in the grey area.

Wow, knowing this about the composition now, it's very impressive. But I would like to know.. who and what is the avian lady? She's neat.

That's Cera, Anna's fellow bartender at the Glass Half Full.
You can see her a bit in Welcome Home and Bartender Chatter
I've got plans to include her more in future stories as well.

So it's less black and white than just good and evil. Very neat and well thought out! :)

Yep, that's exactly it. Though, I can't take all the credit.
Wielder was a great source of inspiration for this less-artistically-inclined writer. She's the one who thought of the color contrast in the first place.
I just ran with it.

Great minds may not always think alike... but they DO think well together! :)

I see Jace himself has already addressed your thoughtful comment, ladyfriend, but I figured I would thank you for commenting and tell you that you definitely picked up on the right idea with him having two different sides. Poor Jace. Just one of those good guys caught between two opposing sides.

You are quite welcome! :) Those are my favorite kinds of characters... they're so much more realistic to me. After all, very few of us are black and white, all good or all evil. And good people/characters can do some pretty shitty things, but it makes them human. It sounds like I'll have to check out his stories...

The lighting here is really impressive! How much do you charge for these posters?

THANK YOU! Working on the lighting was fun on this one. I'm really REALLY trying to do more brave stuff with lighting.

These would probably start out at around 300 bucks AT LEAST. They are on larger paper and they are time consuming, but they are lots of fun when everything really starts falling into place.

I really like these poster-style commissions Wielder. It really does remind me of the newer ones (probably one of the better things about Phantom Menace was the cool poster design)

I am so glad they remind you of the newer posters that were done by the Crown Prince of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Poster Art, Drew Struzan. He's one of my all time favorite illustrators/graphic artists, so I'm so happy that I managed to have the same kind of feel in my work. Thanks so much, Chaser!

There are times it feels like i'm giving hollow praise when other comment on styles or bodies or other things but yeah, I do love the posters. Heh, someone should pay you the money once to do a Star Trek one just to see what your brain would implode into.....

Epic!

Thankies!

Normally, I'd say something witty, but mostly I'm just thinking, 'wow'.
Seriously, I need a minute to just take this all in.
...
Okay, let's go clockwise around.
Jed the smirking beagle looks perfectly in-character, especially considering that his first written appearance will probably be something like this
Anabel, the lovely German shepherd reporter, seems well into an engaging interview.
I can't wait to show these two.
Anna... Well, I think she sells the piece. Armed, but relaxed, and holding her gaze with the viewer. That draws the eye to the ring in her hand, and I just realized that you've even added a glimmer of light reflecting off of it! My gosh, the detail!
Yet, my favorite part of the piece has got to be Cera and Max. A good teaser of things to come, and a stark contrast to the burning city pictured below. Almost more than Jace and Anna, I love these two.
You've shown off Jace's Guardian very well, and the man of the hour looks EPIC.
The color contrast at the top does a good job emphasizing the soldier / mercenary sides of Jace, but you took it one step further and added the glow of these colors to the characters on each side, which hints where each character comes to light.
I'm honestly astounded by the remarkable level of detail you've put into this, and I cannot thank you enough for helping me bring my stories to life.

Now I'm just trying to decide if the fiery silhouette or Jace's glaring smirk would be a better thumbnail for Jace's stories...
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"Legal? In my line of work, legalities are more like guidelines. I'm not in the legal and illegal business. I'm in the right and wrong business.
Bad news for you, I'm afraid."
- Jace Taer, mercenary

Thank YOU for being such an awesome commissioner. You have been BEYOND patient, and it's more than I deserve so I am so very very happy that the end result has you so pleased. I can't wait to see what you and your friends do with these characters. NOW GIVE US MORE STORY! *shakes fist at you*

curious, is that starship the same one from Tempest Feud?

I actually had to look that one up. (I'm not very well-versed in extended-universe Star Wars. FOR SHAME!)
It might be similar, though I can't find any pictures of the ship, but on my end it was just one of a number of designs thought up by scythemouse and the end result was the Guardian

Coolness

Seriously, his would be a hundred times better than anything Disney could produce for the Star Wars brand... Sigh, and now I want to run a Knights of the Old Republic game for my tabletop group XD

Awww, thanks! I'm sure LoneWolfSniper appreciates your opinion as well!

:) And thank you... Totally inspired by this. Spent a couple of hours going over my old Vargr character notes and drawings from the first Star Wars game I ever played XD

This is seriously good. Like..wow. It's nuts how good this is.

Awww, thanks!

This is VERY evocative of Richard Amsel's work. Like, it's not quite up to that quality BUT you're soooo close. I can't wait to see where you go from here.

this is amazing! just stunning!

Thanks!

Holy damn, Wielder! When are they going to hire you to do a movie poster or a book cover? They totally should! =D

Awwww *blushes* thank you so much! I really enjoy doing these.

OOooh, awesome!

Thanks, hun!

Awesome job on this :)